On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 22:31, Michael A. Peters wrote: > > Only OS vendor stuff has a prefix of /usr > Third party stuff has a prefix of /usr/contrib > /usr/contrib/lib > /usr/contrib/include > /usr/contrib/etc > /usr/contrib/bin > > only package manager stuff goes in /usr/contrib - stuff compiled from > source still goes in /usr/local And of course - root's path should NOT have /usr/contrib/bin in it - for obvious reasons - since root isn't required to install there (which is another reason to not allow the contrib stuff to satisfy the distro rpm's - as you could end up with a distro binary using a tainted shared library from contrib when run as root) -- Cheap Linux CD's - http://mpeters.us/linux/
